2046. Misbranding of Treet Tone.    U. S. v. 8 Bottles and 44 Bottles ol Treet
Tone.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D. C. No.
20740.    Sample No. 1544-H.)
LIBEL FILED :   August 21, 1946, Southern District of Georgia.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT:    On or about July 3, 1946, by the Hilltop Farm Feed Co.,
from Minneapolis, Minn.
PBODTJCT :   8 gallon bottles and 44 quart bottles of Treet Tone at Savannah, Ga.
Examination showed that the product was essentially a solution containing
iron, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride,  epsom  salt,   mix  vomica,  and
phenolphthalein.
LABEL, IN PART : "Treet Tone Active Ingredients 55? * * * Treet Labora-
tories   Division of Hilltop Farm Feed Co.   Minneapolis 1, Minnesota."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Misbranding, Section 502 (a), certain statements on the
label and in an accompanying wholesale price list were false and misleading
since they represented and suggested that the product would be effective as
a general conditioner and tonic for run-down birds; that it would bring birds
quickly out of the last stages of moult; that it was the finest poultry tonic
known; that it would be efficacious to bring chicks, poults, and large birds
to normal vitality rapidly, and maintain them there; that it had no equal.as
a builder up of any flock; and that it should always be used during and after
any disease treatment. The product would be of little or no value, other than
possibly being a laxative in larger doses, and it would not fulfill the promises
of benefit implied and suggested in the labeling.
Further misbranding, Section 502 (e) (2), the product was fabricated from
2 or more ingredients, one of which was nux vomica, a strychnine-containing
drug, and the label failed to state the name and quantity or proportion of
strychnine.
DISPOSITION : September 26, 1946. No claimant having appeared, judgment of
condemnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.